A 13-year tradition continues as the Metropolitan Opera's 2018-19 season opens with a live transmission of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila to multiple screens in Times Square.

Free seating is available on Duffy Square and the Broadway Plazas between 43rd-44th Streets and 46th-47th Streets. Purchase some refreshments from the TSQ MKT kiosks and then find a seat! There will be two intermissions, each approximately 30 minutes.

House opens: 5:00pmPre-show: 5:30pmCurtain up: 6:00pm

About Samson et Dalila:When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

Save to Calendar2018-09-24 17:30:002018-09-24 21:30:00America/New_YorkMet Opera Opening Night 2018: Samson et DalilaA 13-year tradition continues as the Metropolitan Opera's 2018-19 season
opens with a live transmission of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic /Samson et
Dalila/ to multiple screens in Times Square.
Free seating is available on Duffy Square and the Broadway Plazas between
43rd-44th Streets and 46th-47th Streets. Purchase some refreshments from the
TSQ MKT kiosks and then find a seat! There will be two intermissions, each
approximately 30 minutes.
*House opens:* 5:00pm
*Pre-show:* 5:30pm
*Curtain up:* 6:00pm
*About /Samson et Dalila/:*
When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for
a new production of /Carmen/ at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now
this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the
season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic /Samson et
Dalila/. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
in 2014 for /A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder/, makes his Met debut
directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the
last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir
Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.
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